Chapter 13 People Moving West

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Chapter 13People Moving West

• Chapter 13 Lesson 2
• Trails to the West
• Pages 438/441

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Oregon Fever

• Oregon Country
• Present day Northwest United States
• Find on map in textbook ?
• 350,000 people moved here between 1840-1860
• Claimed by United States and Great Britain
• Mountain Men (fur trappers)
• Missionaries (bring religion to Native Americans

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Oregon Trail

• Missionaries
• People who wanted to teach their religion to
  Native Americans
• Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
• Missionaries who went to Oregon and wrote letters
  back east about experience

• 2,000 mile trail
• Independence, Missouri
• Columbia River region of Oregon
• Fertile farmland in Oregon appealed to people

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Wagon Trains

• Large groups of people who moved westward in
  groups
• Pulled by oxen or horses
• Carried all of the familys belongings

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Mormon Trail

• Trail to Salt Lake City, Utah from Nauvoo,
  Illinois followed by Mormons
• Mormons Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
  Saints
• Mormons were forced west in search of religious
  freedom

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Brigham Young

• Leader of Mormons after Joseph Smith was killed
  in Illinois
• Decided group should move west so they could live
  and worship in peace

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Salt Lake City

• Planned community for Mormons
• Dedicated location for members of the Church of
  Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to live and
  worship in peace

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Assignment

• Review your notes on these PPT slides
• Read 438/441 in your textbook
• Create a map that shows these trails to the
  Western United States Oregon Trail and Mormon
  Trail
• Politely ask a parent to sign off as proof
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